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Highlights

- Astro dominates pay-TV with over 68% TV household penetration. To date it has resisted competition from cable and IPTV; future TV leadership will depend on Astro’s ability to penetrate rural pay-TV markets with low-income households. - OTT/SVOD services are slowly emerging with Internet-TV service iflix and Telekom Malaysia launching in 2015, and Netflix in 2016.

- IPTV will strengthen its position in the market in the next few years, as government- and TM-initiated high-speed broadband network deployment will result in an upsurge in nationwide broadband penetration. In preparation, TM is looking beyond IPTV to guard against emerging OTT competition via back-to-back partnerships with iflix and Viu.

- Terrestrial-TV digitalization kicked off in April 2015. MYTV and TM driving the DTT infrastructure process forward, with the aim of extending DTT reception to 98% of population by end-2016. - Astro has secured the Premier League (EPL) broadcast rights in Malaysia for the three seasons from 2016/17 to 2018/19. Weakening of Malaysian Ringgit currency is hurting Astro in terms of increased content costs.

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